Nokia: A tablet would be good for us

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Nokia has told Pocket-lint that a tablet would be good for the company, highlighting the fact that it would sit nicely among its current product line-up. But the company's keen to emphasise that it has no plans to launch one just yet.

Speaking during a one-to-one briefing during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Niklas Savander, executive vice-president at Nokia, covering Brand, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Customer Care and Information Technology, told us: "The tablet is an interesting market for someone like Nokia because it is not cannibalising handset sales, it is cannibalising PC sales."

However, he was keen to stress that if Nokia were to release a tablet device, it would need to be different from the rest. "If we are going to be in that market we need to have a [different] point of view, because being the 101st maker isn't really a commercial or consumer proposition," he said.

"It is a potential growth market for someone like Nokia, but there are no plans so far."